Rick Parmentier’s Reflections upon Retirement
Rick Parmentier January 24, 2017 SLA interview with Rick Parmentier Rick Parmentier What article or book that you wrote are you most pleased with? Could you talk about the…
William Leap’s Reflections upon Retirement
William Leap August 13, 2018 William Leap is retiring after being a professor of anthropology at American University for 46 years. Ilana Gershon asks him to reflect on…
Bonnie Urciuoli’s Reflections on Retirement
SLA INTERVIEW WITH BONNIE URICIUOLI August 15, 2017 Bonnie Urciuoli. Nancy L. Ford What article or book that you wrote are you most pleased with? Could you talk about…
Capitalismo afectivo: la imaginación para el poder.
“Nosotros somos siempre la solución, puesto que nosotros creamos los problemas” Comentario satírico de los corredores de Bolsa de NY, Gran Depresión de 1929. “Necesitamos agregar una noción…
UNDERTONES: Leiris, Lévi-Strauss and Opera
By Jean Jamin Translated by Simon Torracinta Editors’ note: The editors of the History of Anthropology Review are delighted to publish this essay by Jean Jamin. As readers…
Care – a Christmas Carol
The inadequacy of charitable care as an international cure is evidenced despite the widespread propagation of philanthropic intervention. Bill Gates dedicates millions towards eradication of less glam…
Teaching Anthropology through Sequential Art (Part II)
By Andrew Gilbert In Part I of this essay, I discussed the design and goals of a new course I had developed on graphic novels in an upper-year…
Miriam Driessen, “Tales of Hope, Tastes of Bitterness: Chinese Road Builders in Ethiopia” (Hong Kong UP, 2019)
I met Dr Miriam Driessen at Oxford University where she works at the China Centre. We spoke about her wonderful new book Tales of Hope, Tastes of Bitterness:…
Is Artificial Intelligence Magic?
Artificial intelligence can perform feats that seem like sorcery. AI can drive cars and fly drones. It can compose original music, write poetry that isn’t too awful, and…
Afrika im Bode-Museum: Neue Perspektiven auf alte Welten
Auf der Museumsinsel geht nach zwei Jahren die Schau “Unvergleichlich: Kunst aus Afrika im Bode-Museum” zu Ende. Zeit, ein kleines Resümee zu ziehen. Länger als zwei Jahre dauerte…
Diversität- und Antidiskriminierung
Konzepte im Feld von Schule und Migration Publikation mit Beiträgen von: Prof. Dr. Mechtild Gomolla, Dr. Katrin Huxel, Dr. Galina Putjata, Dr. Thomas Geier, Prof. Dr. Yasemin Karakaşoğlu,…
Safdar Hashmi
So, in 1988 I was evading fieldwork or whatever it was – frankly, I had abandoned the very idea – and was hanging around with a writer whose…
Thomas Yarrow, “Architects: Portraits of a Practice” (Cornell UP, 2019)
What is creativity? What is the relationship between work life and personal life? How is it possible to live truthfully in a world of contradiction and compromise? These…
Feierliche Eröffnung des Italienzentrums der Goethe-Universität mit Festvortrag
Das Italienzentrum der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt lädt ein zur feierlichen Eröffnung in der Lobby des PA-Gebäudes am 11. Dezember 2019 um 18.30 Uhr. Prof. Dr. Carlo Ginzburg (University of Californi…
Reciprocity in Silicon Valley: The prominent role of gift giving among tech entrepreneurs in the Bay Area
‘Marcel Mauss applied to Silicon Valley’ – by Vivienne Schröder During my three months of fieldwork in the Bay Area on the work/private life situation of early-stage tech…
Why the Earth Must Be Mapped
A lidar scan of a site in Mexico reveals the boundaries of a ceremonial area. Chris Fisher The climate crisis represents humanity’s greatest threat. Our daily news is…
Sharing Polar Cultures and Knowledge: Perspectives from Libraries and Archives
Our colleagues from the library have alerted us to their colloquium, which is this year about the participation of knowledge-holders in the sharing and archiving practices that have…
Ethnography and the Internet – what´s next?
The Internet has been attracting researchers’ attention for long. As a relatively new territory, it presents a methodological challenge. For anthropologists as well. On the one hand, it…
Gemeinsame Stellungnahme zur Wissenschaftskommunikation
Gemeinsam mit 14 weiteren Fachgesellschaften hat die DGSKA eine Stellungnahme zur Wissenschaftskommunikation an Bundesministerin Anja Karliczek unterzeichnet. Karliczek hatte angekündigt, den Dialog z…
#events: Let’s Get Geographical!
They say ‘the early bird catches the worm’. Would you like to catch that worm? Or, perhaps, that worm isn’t so enticing! How about a short course on…
Gegen die Sprachlosigkeit. Als häusliche Gewalt einen Namen bekam: zur Geschichte der Frauenhaus-Bewegung
Häusliche Gewalt gegen Frauen ist seit geraumer Zeit zu einem vieldiskutierten Thema geworden. Dies war nicht immer so. Dazu, dass sich dies änderte, leisteten autonome Feministinnen und die…
Nichaqwali Watlala peoples at Blue Lake
The Nichaqwali people, a Cascades/Watlala Chinookan band, lived at the juncture of several cultural groups that lived in the larger region of the lower Columbia and who interacted…
Neanderthals: Body of Evidence
As every fan of crime drama television knows, the human body holds a wealth of information about its once-living owner. Flesh and bugs may tell of time of…
Infill, onfill eller refill? Tre råd for mer ombruk i byutviklingen
av Gro Sandkjær Hanssen og Joar Skrede Om den fremtidige byveksten skal gi oss en klima- og miljømessig, sosialt, kulturelt og økonomisk bærekraftig by, må byen omformes og…